130th Anniversary of the School Celebrated with Honors and a New Exhibition

On Saturday, June 4, 2011 approximately 325 trustees, friends, alumni/ae, and members of the American School of Classical Studies gathered in Cotsen Hall to mark the 130th Anniversary of the founding of the School and to pay tribute to five great Philhellenes: Alan L. Boegehold who received the Aristeia Award, the first such award for a distinguished alumnus of the School; Lloyd E. Cotsen; David W. Packard; Malcolm H. Wiener; and Charles K. Williams, II. Distinguished guests brought words of congratulations to the School: Nikoletta Valakou, Director of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, on behalf of the Ministry of Culture; U.S. Ambassador to the Hellenic Republic Daniel Bennett Smith; and President of the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce Yanos Gramatidis. The School’s Director, Jack L. Davis, gave a keynote address on “The ASCSA, Then and Now” with photo images of the early decades of the School, while Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan, the Doreen Canaday Spitzer Archivist of the School, closed the program with an introduction to the exhibition she curated in the Gennadius Library on the history of the School’s academic program.

View details of the exhibition on view until September 30, 2011.

Watch the event here:
(Total running time approximately 2 hours)

130th Anniversary of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens part 1

130th Anniversary of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens part 2

130th Anniversary of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens part 3

130th Anniversary of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens part 4